Message298508
> we used to mandate the presence of a svn install
And we regretted that so much that we changed away from it :)
When discussing this changeover plan, Zach and I decided we needed a fallback requiring only OS dependencies. In this case, the Powershell dependency fails on Windows 7 since it does not have the Invoke-WebRequest command (unless you've been installing all your updates).
We decided against using git first because then the case that is more reliable (download and extract a .zip file from a URL) would go unused/untested in many cases.
We also use the potentially installed python.exe in other places in the build, so it's far from a waste to grab it, and we already required *any* Python dependency to do a full build (docs and/or installer), so it isn't really adding anything there. The bit that was overlooked was the PowerShell on old systems limitation, and the absence of py.exe when you don't have Python 3 installed. |
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2017-07-17 13:17:47 | steve.dower | set | recipients:
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2017-07-17 13:17:47 | steve.dower | set | messageid: <1500297467.29.0.17126116792.issue30450@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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